Access to a range of training courses to enable you to reach your career goals. After all, a better you means better care. That's what delivering great healthcare should feel like.
As an Activities Assistant you will be:
1. Co-ordinating social and recreational activities for service users within the secure environment who are unable to freely access public services.
2. Obtaining information from service users regarding their social and recreational interests.
3. Observing general behaviour, ability, and response of service users and reporting back regularly using verbal and written communications to appropriate team members.
4. Under supervision, documenting observations and progress in the service user's clinical notes.
5. Fulfilling the security requirements of the service and adhering to service policies, guidelines, and procedures.
6. Conducting basic risk assessments on a day-to-day basis for individuals and groups of service users.
7. Ensuring that health and safety, welfare, and security standards for service users, staff, and their visitors are adhered to.
8. Utilizing effective skills of co-ordination and use of resources.
To be successful in this role, you'll need:
1. Basic group work skills.
2. Minimum of 12 months experience within a mental health setting (Desirable).
3. Ability to communicate effectively and work within a team-based framework.
4. Initiative and motivation.
5. Awareness of Mental Health and its impact on functioning.
6. Solution-focused approach to problem-solving.
7. Good organisational skills.
8. Awareness of gender-specific needs.
9. Awareness of the cultural needs of service users.
10. Full UK Drivers License.
Where you will be working:
Location: Dividy Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST2 0TN. You will be working at Adderley Green, which consists of two units. Moorcroft Manor is a specialist inpatient neurological rehabilitation and complex care service for people with neurological illnesses, acquired brain and spinal cord injuries, while Gladstone House is a specialist inpatient unit for people over 65 living with complex dementia.
Job Details:
Being an Activities Assistant is so much more than just organising programmes. It's providing care and support to some of the most vulnerable people in society. Working 37.5 hours a week (alternate weekends), you will join the team at Adderley Green where you will create an activity-based culture, which will see you use technical and creative skills to assist in developing, delivering, and coordinating programmes focused on social, recreational, and leisure activities.
You will be responsible for creating 1-1 and group rapports with service users to help evolve and shape the activities to increase engagement. As you plan and implement activities around their interests, this should also have a strong emphasis on their individual needs to support the treatment plans. Working alongside the multidisciplinary team, you will develop links with community-based resources to support service users to engage in local activities.
What you will get:
1. Annual salary of £23,693.
2. The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays) plus your birthday off!
3. Free meals and parking.
4. Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
5. Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
6. Pension contribution to secure your future.
7. Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
8. Enhanced Maternity Package.
9. A range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers, and much more.
It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person's individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.
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